Author: Liam Otten

Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern are pivotal figures in the art of 20th century Argentina. Beginning Sept. 9, the WashU Kemper Art Museum will explore their legacy as part of “Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950,” the first U.S. exhibition to examine how local, exile and immigrant artists adopted and transformed the aesthetics of international modernism.

More than a dozen nationally and internationally known artists, architects, designers and scholars will discuss their work as part of the Sam Fox School’s fall Public Lecture Series.

Joanna Dee Das, an associate professor of performing arts in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won the 2026 Book Award from the International Society for the Study of Musicals.

Meredith Malone was installed as the Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Curator at the WashU Kemper Art Museum May 18. The endowed position is the museum’s first named curatorship.

Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, Constance Vale and Chandler Ahrens — all architecture faculty at the WashU Sam Fox School — have won a Most Enhanced Award from the Landmarks Association of St. Louis.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the SOM Foundation have named Linda C. Samuels, a professor and chair of urban design at the WashU Sam Fox School, as 2026 researcher-in-residence.

Thirteen graduates of the School of Continuing & Professional Studies Prison Education Project received their degrees May 28 during a commencement ceremony held at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo.

In “The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life,” WashU’s Ian Bogost explores the real but often unremarked delights to be found in ordinary encounters with the physical world. “While you are waiting for the supposedly important stuff to arrive,” Bogost writes, “a million cases of the small stuff come and go.”

People join movements for many reasons. The American Revolution was no different, says Peter Kastor, a professor of history at WashU. “They all agree on liberty. They disagree on what it means.”

The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots,” a solo exhibition of new and recent work by the Los Angeles–based Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo, Sept. 9 to Jan. 4.